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Cathedral Church of St Peter, St Paul and St Andrew

A Grade I Listed Building in Peterborough, City of Peterborough

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Latitude: 52.5725 / 52°34'21"N

Longitude: -0.2394 / 0°14'21"W

OS Eastings: 519416

OS Northings: 298645

OS Grid: TL194986

Mapcode National: GBR HZQ.LBK

Mapcode Global: WHHNK.9L8P

Plus Code: 9C4XHQF6+27

Entry Name: Cathedral Church of St Peter, St Paul and St Andrew

Listing Date: 7 February 1952

Grade: I

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1331492

English Heritage Legacy ID: 49632

Also known as: Saint Peter's Cathedral

ID on this website: 101331492

Location: St Peter's Cathedral, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE1

County: City of Peterborough

Electoral Ward/Division: Central

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Peterborough

Traditional County: Northamptonshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cambridgeshire

Tagged with: Anglican or episcopal cathedral Romanesque architecture English Gothic architecture Norman architecture

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Description


819/1/1 PRECINCTS
07-FEB-52 PETERBOROUGH
CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST PETER, ST PAUL
AND ST ANDREW

GV I

TL 1998 NW 1/1 7.2.52

Rebuilding, after a disastrous fire, commenced in 1118 under Abbot John de Seez. Barnack stone. Nave circa 1150, west end circa 1177. West front and main consecration in 1238. Tower 1315. Porch late Cl4. Windows mainly renewed in C14 and C15. Main restoration by J L Pearson in 1882-6.
Specially Important:-
Nave ceiling of circa 1220, decorated with lozenge shaped panels containing the figures of kings, queens, saints, monsters etc.
Retrochoir of 1496-1508 has 4 and 3 light windows with panel tracery separated by buttresses. Open parapet with seated figures on the tops of the buttresses. The interior has a handsome fan-vaulted roof on slender shafts, possibly designed by John Wastell who worked at King's College Cambridge.
Monuments: Hedda Stone of circa 800 - grey stone with a pitched roof, carved with an inhabited scroll with stiffly carved frontal figures. Effigies in Alwalton marble of 4 abbots of between 1195 to 1225. Remains of the tomb of Queen Katharine of Aragon. C15 brass lectern. Glass of 1862 by Morris, Marshall and Faulkner in the south transept on the south wall.
VCH (Northants) Vol II. NMR.

Listing NGR: TL1941698645

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